Comments on: 10 questions: Stephen O’Connell http://theatreisterritory.com/2007/06/10-questions-stephen-o%e2%80%99connell/ Performance. Production. Theory. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:01:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: mike http://theatreisterritory.com/2007/06/10-questions-stephen-o%e2%80%99connell/comment-page-1/#comment-165 mike Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:03:00 +0000 http://theatreisterritory.com/?p=111#comment-165 these guys do awesome stuff. i went to one of their shows at summerworks that required being blindfolded on a school bus and taken to a secret location (Dufferin and Queen). i think they did a great job of destroying the passive viewer with that show....I did a have a strange experience there that i've always wanted to ask someone from the company about though:<br/><br/>i ended up being selected as an audience member who had to do this back balancing exercise with a stranger in front of the huge audience they had drawn, it was high pressure and the exercise never officially ended, the show went somewhere else and eventiually we scrambled after the action. <br/><br/>this was no big deal to me. i went to theatre school, i can stand in front of a gazillion people, be told i'm shit, and shrug it off before dinner. but i wondered how a non-performer would have responded to the experience. do you guys worry that this aesthetic alienates regular non theatre joes from your work? these guys do awesome stuff. i went to one of their shows at summerworks that required being blindfolded on a school bus and taken to a secret location (Dufferin and Queen). i think they did a great job of destroying the passive viewer with that show….I did a have a strange experience there that i’ve always wanted to ask someone from the company about though:

i ended up being selected as an audience member who had to do this back balancing exercise with a stranger in front of the huge audience they had drawn, it was high pressure and the exercise never officially ended, the show went somewhere else and eventiually we scrambled after the action.

this was no big deal to me. i went to theatre school, i can stand in front of a gazillion people, be told i’m shit, and shrug it off before dinner. but i wondered how a non-performer would have responded to the experience. do you guys worry that this aesthetic alienates regular non theatre joes from your work?

]]> By: Jon K. http://theatreisterritory.com/2007/06/10-questions-stephen-o%e2%80%99connell/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Jon K. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:06:00 +0000 http://theatreisterritory.com/?p=111#comment-164 A fitting companion interview to all this talk about the New York City problem, me thinks. A fitting companion interview to all this talk about the New York City problem, me thinks.

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